How about they sue over the use of the name "store". This is just a sue happy nation, very sad. I really do hope the judge laughs at them and throws it out. Its sad that Amazon will lose money defending this frivolous lawsuit. They should counter-sue for fees.

Donate the money to Japan or lend it to Obama to buy a few more 550k tomahawk missles for him to waste or something, anything but a frivolous lawsuit. I'm not confused by the name App Store nor do I think anyone would be, unless they think app is short for apples or something.

If Amazon can patent one-click shopping I guess Apple can trademark "App Store."

Love it. EXACTLY! Go Apple! If it were anyone else other than Amazon (which I use and appreciate, BTW), I'd agree in saying that this is annoying. But, if I were to be the lawyer for Apple, I'd stand before the judge, quote atadams, and sit down.

To me this is a lot like someone who sells produce by the highway under a sign that says Fruit Stand trying to enforce a trade mark against a produce stand down the street called FruitStand.

Even if it was called exactly the same thing it would be kind of funny, and legally debatable. App was an established shortening of application long before Apple had an App Store... and stores, well those existed too, and people sold apps in them.

As it is App Store and Appstore are more than different enough to be considered distinct. Or am I missing some legal point here?

I hope the judge gives the world a spelling lesson and bans the abbreviation "app" altogether forcing everyone to use "application" or nothing at all. The word is, well it's not a word is it, but it is SO overdone nowadays.

The Amazon appstore was said to have only 3800 apps in store. This seems to be a small number, considering that you can find, using any files search engine like [findfiles.net ] , a few thousand free Android apps for downloading in the net.